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Don't carry a money-belt or a pack, and don't stop to shmoose with people on the road.
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"Whenever you enter a house, first say, `Shalom!' to the household.
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If a seeker of shalom is there, your `Shalom!' will find its rest with him; and if there isn't, it will return to you.
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Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they offer, for a worker deserves his wages -- don't move about from house to house.
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"Whenever you come into a town where they make you welcome, eat what is put in front of you.
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Heal the sick there, and tell them, `The Kingdom of God is near you.'
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But whenever you enter a town and they don't make you welcome, go out into its streets and say,
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`Even the dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off as a sign against you! But understand this: the Kingdom of God is near!'
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I tell you, it will be more tolerable on the Day of Judgment for S'dom than for that town.
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"Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Beit-Tzaidah! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tzor and Tzidon, they would long ago have put on sackcloth and ashes as evidence that they had changed their ways.
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But at the Judgment it will be more bearable for Tzor and Tzidon than for you!